Thing 13: Delicious and Diigo

After learning about both social bookmarking services, I decided to join Diigo. I really like that I am able to interact with the text on a website to highlight, post a sticky note, etc. I also like that I can just read the highlights at a later time. In my role as a classroom teacher, I could see using this type of service to have my students visit websites that I direct them to and then they could highlight key information. Highlighting is a skill that many students have trouble with. I could go online and see what their highlighting and we could use this information as a classroom discussion. I could also ask them to search a particular project and have them bookmark sites. We could share these as a class and use the information for a class project.